That's weird man. It would almost be worth it to get the new box then crack it open to see how it ticks.

Sweet. Well good for you on telling them to pound sand. I cut the cord a few years ago and love it.

Fair enough. Good for you being awake. I've tried having conversations with my grandparents about the world at large and they are very closed minded. They consume Fox News like its going out of style.

My grandma uses the internet for Facebook only and my grandpa doesn't use it at all. The internet is a beautiful tool we have but its a double edged sword too. Most of us wouldn't be red pilled without it.

Awesome. I live in Alaska and 90% of my shopping is done through Amazon.

It does but they are starting to crack down on what's considers "Prime" up here. A lot of people were buying big stuff like tires and getting them shipped up for free.

s/o for being a woke senior, God bless!

They would take away the old, perfectly fine box. Don't let them.

With your old slow box, it was taking them practically forever to fill up your computer with child porn and illegal Russian hacking software so you could be framed and carted off to a FEMA camp work prison. Just submit to the upgrade, citizen.

Am I being too paranoid?

Personally, I would find their persistence to give me a service that I never requested and they have no record of a request and have repeatedly cancelled/denied wanting to be involved in abnormally aggressive, and therefore suspicious.

Obviously though, it could be nothing. But if the situation has unfolded the way you've stated, I find it perfectly rationale to have alarms going off.

If you want to be safe, run a VPN. I suggest private internet access or TorGuard.

A VPN is a program that "encrypts" the data you send over the internet. Basically it hides what you send over the internet. Think of it like sending coded messages, so that only the sender and receiver know what was said, but nobody else knows what it was.

PrivateInternetAccess is a company that sells a VPN for 6.95 a month. TorGuard is another company that does this, but for 9.99 a month. These two companies don't store any information about what you do, but some other companies do. Some even sell the data. This comic is a good representation of it.

Basically you would download their VPN program, login with your account, and then connect to the VPN by right clicking on their red icon and selecting the location nearest to you on the bottom right of your screen. If you need help setting it up you can probably ask their support.

TorGuard: https://torguard.net/

PIA: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

While I don't use it all the time, it sounds like you would want to. If you end up getting private internet access, make sure to tick/select all the check boxes inside the box I marked in red.

It's not about "needing" to hide anything. It's about preventing people from intercept your communication for your own peace of mind and privacy.

This is probably nothing, I've had similar experiences with TWC in the past where they did something similar because they claimed I had a bad cable box that they could detect on their end and had scheduled a tech to come out and replace it. Guy came out, gave me a new box. Possibly could be the same situation on your end as well. I doubt there's anything nefarious going on here so no worries.

Don't know what to say specifically.

I've had similar problems using Bell. I paid my bill in cash. I had to go to three different locations before I could and then they gave e a hard time.

They cut off my service a few days later. I called and they said I hadn't paid, so I read off the receipt and they reinstated it. A couple hours later, they cut it off again. Same. Called, read off receipt.

They then charged me for overdue fees and reinstating my service twice. Over $100. I said fuck this, too much hassle.

Never paid. When I called, they said they had no service notice to reconnect and each is 45 plus tax.

Basically, any service "mistake" they can charge you for, they will.

I don't know if I was targeted because I paid cash, or if you were for posting here.

It since become legally required in Canada. And is legally required in the US.

The issue that is similar to yours is the inability for the service person to make adjustments to the system. Somehow, a person can put "paid", but the system can overturn it several times.

Similar that a person can cancel the service call, but the system doesn't care.

Comcast is known for this shit. Their sales reps don't care, they just want to make a sale.

You're more than welcome.

Don't be afraid to be the 'angry' customer.

Do you have a very common name? It could just be that a person with a similar name called to make a service call, but even then they usually ask for the account number.

This is strange though.

Well, keep us up to date, see if this gets scheduled again.

comcast have periodically replace your modems or cable boxes..

some of the new service doesn't work without a new cable box.

I would check your comcast email to see if they said something about this.. I assume your are not checking it.

you should really get your own router/modem, they charge you a monthly fee for that..

you'll save so much money just after a year.

Goodwill or other similar thrift stores will have one for cheap.

Ain't no chance OP is some old woman me thinks a troll

I don't suppose you could get the model number off your router? This is all highly suspicious.

Things that make me happy I don't have cable or Internet. I use a shit load of cell data, but at least I only have one spybox in this household!

Could be some kind of glitch...the normal kind...not the matrix kind.

On the other hand, they seemed quite eager to get inside your home. Like you said, they mailed you new equipment six months ago. Saved having to pay someone to come out and install it. Why would they want to spring for the money now? Definitely odd.

Then again, we all might be feeling a little paranoid after Vault 7. I threw caution to the wind and got a gmail account the other night so I could subscribe to some YouTube channels and when Google (gmail) called to verify my phone and give me a code the area code from their call was 202. ACK! Wouldn't you know it Google has offices in Washington D.C.. So convenient for them!

Just listened to landline messages from last week - A caller from Spectrum(new entity name for time warner here) asked for me by name, asking when he could come by to change out my cable box - I don't have cable & don't use spectrum -

maybe it was just a cleverly disguised sales call, but i thought of your post.